"serve penalty" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used in the context of a legal or sporting penalty, and can be used as a verb or a noun. For example: "The offender was given a six month custodial sentence, as well as being required to serve a penalty of community service." OR "The footballer received a yellow card and had to serve the penalty."
As in ice hockey -- let us give the aficionados what they want -- players can be forced to leave the game for short periods to serve penalties for fouls.
The removal of the deferral clause for suspensions, which allowed jockeys to serve penalties on days that did not clash with important rides, is welcome.
"Serving penalty notices on patients cannot be a caring way to manage this system," says Rachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association.
The key play came early in the second period, with Mats Zuccarello and Dan Girardi serving penalties for the Rangers.
At times in the past, weight lifters have served penalties of less than a year for the serious offense of using performance-enhancing drugs.
The Penguins, who led the N.H.L. with 165 goals in the abbreviated 48-game regular season, altered the dynamic of the game when Islanders defensemen Mark Streit and Travis Hamonic were serving penalties midway through the first period.
Jason Podollan, playing his first game for the Islanders, went to the penalty box to serve the penalty, and Carolina scored its first power-play goal in six games.
But he told BBC Scotland: "Once you serve your penalty, you serve your penalty and you go back to it.
They then compounded the error when completing the wrong number of penalty turns and had to serve another penalty, something Mills admitted was "a mess".
This penalty involves going into the pit lane and stopping for 10 seconds, and the rules state that a driver must serve his penalty within three laps of the penalty being issued.
